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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Watercolour of coastal dunes with purple and rust scrub, a sandy path, and green sea under a pale sky.

Landscape, New Brighton

Margaret Stoddart

Etching of a bearded old man in a high fur cap and fur-trimmed cloak, face partly shadowed, signed Rembrandt.

Bearded old man in a high fur cap, with eyes closed

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635

Reproduction of a dreamlike chamber where sleeping men lie on the floor beneath flowering vines while a bearded elder sits wa

The Council Chamber. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1871

Pencil drawing of a soft tree fern rising among tall forest trunks, with a path and undergrowth in the foreground.

Soft leaved tree fern, Upper Hutt

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1847

Watercolor of heather moorland, a lake and misty mountains, with sheep on a dirt path in the foreground.

Moors at Pen-Craig, North Wales

James Curnock, 1871

Ink and crayon sketch of a seated man in glasses and suit in an armchair, with faint pencil figure studies at left.

Sketch of Cornelius Kauders (Peter During)

Gertrud Kauders, 1931

Watercolor sketch of a slender pink and yellow pipefish with handwritten fin counts and a Tasmanian label on cream paper.

Syngnathidae : Pipefish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Pencil drawing of dense bush with tall trees, a shaded path, and two small figures resting by a log at lower left.

Westoe, Rangitikei (Bush)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Pencil drawing of a towering white pine with thatched huts, a tree fern and a seated figure in a forest clearing.

White pine, Stokes Valley, Upper Hutt

William Swainson FLS FRS

Watercolor of a colonial settlement with red-roofed cottages, a flagpole, and a reed-lined path under an evening sky.

Christchurch. Canterbury Colony. N.Z.

Walter Scarlett Hatton

Woodblock print of a patterned porcelain bowl with scissors, a red tassel, and calligraphy above, by Shozo Ittei.

Porcelain bowl and scissors, issued by followers of the poet Tsurunoya Osamaru

Shozo Ittei, 1824

Pencil sketch of a seated man beside a wooden chair on a sketchbook page, drawn in loose quick lines.

Sketch of seated man in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Engraved botanical illustration of a clump of slender rush plants with clustered seed heads on upright stems.

Juncus scheuchzeroides Gaudichaud-Beaupre

Sydney Parkinson

Closed grey-blue cloth-bound sketchbook with worn edges and soiled lower cover, against a white background.

Sketchbook for 'The marriage at Cana'

Winifred Knights, 1922

Charcoal sketch of two cows in a grassy field beside trees, drawn on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of cows in field in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Monochrome botanical drawing of a branching Azorella plant with small dissected flower studies beside it.

Azorella trifurcata (Gaertner) Hooker f

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor of rolling fields and a village with red roofs beneath clouds, with poppies and wildflowers in the foreground mead

Downton, Salisbury

Sketchbook page with faint pencil sketches of trees and a horizon on the left, blank on the right, numbered 61.

Blank page with smudges from previous page. From: An 1876 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1876

Watercolour of a figure carrying a net on a low-tide beach, with a distant town of red roofs under a pale sky.

Near Queens Bower, Hants

Botanical print of a cushion plant with clustered star-shaped flowers, with smaller plant and flower dissection studies on cr

Donatia fascicularis Forster & G. Forster

Sydney Parkinson

Pencil sketchbook page with loose hatched hills and swirling cloud forms, numbered 62 in the upper corner.

Study from An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Pencil sketch of a river valley with mountains in the distance, a tall tree and cliff on the right.

Untitled (Teremakau River)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of a lake landscape with hills, trees, a pier on the left, and small buildings along the shore.

Untitled. (Italian landscape with lake)

William Henry Fox Talbot

Loose pencil sketch of hills and vegetation on a cream sketchbook page, numbered 29.

Sketch of hills. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Watercolor of a wide valley with a winding river, tree ferns in the foreground and hazy blue mountains in the distance.

Landscape, Nelson

John Gully, 1872

Grey wash drawing of a windmill silhouetted on a hill at dusk, with a pale horizon and receding hills.

Landscape with windmill

Woodblock print of an ornate court carriage with a lattice panel, patterned cloth and spoked wheel, with calligraphy on the l

Court carriage

Utagawa Toyohiro, 1815

Dark etching of a Gothic church interior with an ornate altarpiece, winged angels and bright arched windows.

Interior of Saint-Maclou, Rouen

Mortimer Menpes, 1902

Monochrome botanical illustration of a Peperomia plant with rounded speckled leaves and spike-like flower clusters on a cream

Peperomia urvilleana A. Richard

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Sepia drawing of large trees over a path with small figures, a woman carrying a child, and a hazy distant landscape.

Landscape with trees and figures

Joseph Farington